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What is the population of the UK - sorted by age, gender and location?
What is the estimated population of the UK in 5 and 10 years time - sorted by age, gender and location?
How many people in the UK, are living in assisted living accommodation or a care home?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65), live with their children, with a full-time carer, live alone or live with a partner?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) are widowed, single/never married, married/civil partnership, divorced?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) receive formal and informal care?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) receive daily formal care?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) in the UK have a severe physical disability?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) in the UK require daily and weekly living assistance for their physical disabilities?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) have a mild, moderate or severe mental impairment/intellectual disability?
How many older adults (preferably specific to those over 65) have a mild, moderate and severe physical impairment?
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Responding to your questions in order:
1. We publish population estimates for the UK by age and sex and location at various levels. The latest are from mid-2018 and are at local authority level and other geographies including wards, lower layer super output areas, middle super output areas, clinical commissioning groups and parliamentary constituencies.
2. You can find the projections of the population 5 and 10 years ahead in our principal projection of the UK population by age groups which includes data at individual country level and files containing data by single year of age and sex – see the XML open datasets from the Table of Contents.
We also publish projections at subnational level for England at geographies below country level. The Welsh Government publish subnational population projections for Wales.
3. The latest available data are from the 2011 Census. Table KS405UK presents population resident by type of communal establishment. Census tables are available through Nomis. Please note the definition of a communal establishment used in the 2011 Census.
4. Census data from 2011 may provide some insight. Table KS105UK presents household composition.
The household population living alone by age and sex is presented within the annual (latest data 2019) Families and Households publication (Table 6). These data are based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
ONS have also previously published user requested data tables from the LFS about the percentage of the population aged 65 and over living in a couple in England.
Please note the definition of a household used within each dataset.
5. We publish population estimates by marital status and living arrangements for England and Wales. These are broken down by age group.
6. Numbers in receipt of care (formal and informal not separated) by age and sex are available from the Family Resources Survey, published by the Department for Work and Pensions.
7. Again, this is likely to be covered by the Family Resources Survey, published by the Department for Work and Pensions who may be better placed to help you.
8. The number reporting a disability by age and sex are also available from the Family Resources Survey. The ONS Annual Population Survey (APS) breaks health and disabilities down by type and by age.
ONS have previously reported on disability by age group and on disability amongst older people. We can create a user requested data table providing estimates by age group, disability status and main health condition for a more recent time period. This can be requested via socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk and may be chargeable depending on your requirements. Because this information is available via another route, we consider that s.21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies. This is an absolute exemption and so consideration of the public interest test is not required.
There is no variable in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) or Annual Population Survey (APS) that specifically measures the severity of a disability, however we could report using the variable:
LIMACT - reduces ability to carry out day-to-day activities
(1) Yes, a lot
(2) Yes, a little
(3) Not at all
9. We do not hold data to answer this question. The Health Foundation may be able to provide more information.
10. We do not hold data to answer this question. Public Health England may be able to provide more information.
11. The best data available from us is provided at point 8.
When accessing any of our files please read the 'notes, terms and conditions' contained within them.
Other sources of data that could help you include: